Via Vittor Pisani consists of a group of buildings with extremely compact and rigorous facades, where modularity and perspective alignments of the fronts build the access in Piazza Duca d’Aosta.

The project to remake the façade of the building at No. 15 Via Vittor Pisani corner Via Caretto – dating back to the 1970s – was guided by the desire to maintain the building’s basement-body-coronation tripartition and the continuity of alignments with the adjoining façades, while updating its urban image to make the volume “vibrate” more with sunlight. Following the total strip-out of the building, the masking of the existing parapet-beam system was accomplished with the superimposition of the new façade, with a new metric obtained by the movement of cell planes and a play of modularity of opaque and glazed elements.

The renewed building envelope is characterized by three different types of facades. In particular, the glazed one that covers the floors destined for offices was born from an ad hoc study of a system modification that made it possible to respond to the discontinuous trend of the architectural front with overhanging glazed elements, and at the same time to be able to install the façade with cells complete with shaped and painted exterior aluminum cladding. It presents pressers and covers outside the glass-chamber. The parapet part of the facade consists of a glazed “shadow box” with sheet metal behind it to ensure the depth effect of the facade and at the same time conceal all the latticework supporting the cell elements.